Businesses often wonder what cloud or hosting environment is best for their organization. Because of different models and services, one cloud is actual not equal to another cloud. This also applies to the cloud of a secure enterprise messaging app. It is not just about differences in terms of privacy and security, e.g. whether data is stored in a European cloud or on own servers, but also about questions related to maintenance, connectivity, scalability and costs.

Last week the professional collaboration tool Slack announced that it is acquiring the workplace chat tools HipChat and Stride from the software company Atlassian. The plan is to discontinue HipChat and Stride, and migrate their users to Slack. Apart of all the migration questions that users of HipChat and Stride are now bothering, there are even bigger problems for enterprises with the self-hosted version of HipChat: